Roles
for Alan
Creative
casting ideas expressed on the Guestbook
Here
you will find no suggestions for film remakes,
and
if you are looking for characters based on novels, look here
instead.
This
list is limited to historical characters and roles in plays or as-yet-unmade
movies.
In
alphabetical
order by name of role
(because,
gosh, I just can't help myself)
All
that having been said ,
what
if Alan played…
Akhenaten,
the Sun Pharaoh?
Alex
from the Daily Telegraph comic strip?
Russell
Taylor, one of the creators of a play based on the strip says, “I
am really looking for a young Alan Rickman….A posh and obnoxious
young man in his 30s.”
(Daily
Telegraph, 11-17-04)
Mr. Applegate (that devilish fellow) in Damn Yankees?
Christopher Columbus?
Cyrano de Bergerac?
Lorenzo da Ponte?
Da
Ponte was Italian poet who wrote the libretti for three of
Mozart’s most famous operas. Was also a Jewish Catholic priest with a wife
and children. Sounds like a great role for
anybody.
John Donne? (he has already had practice giving sermons)
Dracula? (or any vampire, for that matter)
Sir
Francis Drake? (knighthood at last!)
Eeyore?????? (voice only, of course)
On
second thought, hasn't he already played this role in space, renamed "Marvin"?
Fagan
in the musical Oliver?
Faustus? (Marlowe’s, or anybody's)
Fortunato
in the Edgar Allen Poe story, The Cask of Amontilldo?
Galileo Galilei?
Steven Kodaly in Little Shop Around the Corner?
Machiavelli?
Jean-Paul Marat?
Merlin ? (Okay, he's already played a wizard--but this is different!
)
Oliver
Mellors, the Gameskeeper in Lady Chatterley’s Lover?
Magwitch
from Great Expectations?
Moriarty? (after all, he’s already played Holmes…)
Professor James Murray?
Prof.
Murray was the editor of the Oxford English Dictonary who was most recently
portrayed in Simon Winchester's bestselling book,
The Professor and
the Madman (Perennial Press, 1999). AR could actually play
both the Professor, and the “Madman,” Dr. W. C. Minor, since they are described
as eerily resembling one another.
Pontius
Pilate? (or any Roman, for that matter! How about an emperor?)
Henry Ribolow?
This
is the butcher-turned-ballroom dancer in Allan Knee’s play, Syncopation.
Robespierre?
Scrooge?
(this should be familiar ground, having called off Christmas once before)
Shakespeare characters:
Benedick?
Duke? (Measure for Measure)
Henry IV?
Lear?
Leontes? (A Winter's Tale)
Macbeth?
Malvolio?
Petruchio? (Taming of the Shrew)
Prospero?
Richard III? (wait—hasn’t Alex Dane already done this?)
Shylock?
Touchstone?
Torvald in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House?
Is
that the Everly Brothers I hear singing? (Dreeeeeam....dream, dream,
dre-eam....)